Office of the Historian

Defense Files: Telegram

The Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Ambassador in the Soviet Union (Harriman)1

secret
[Oran,] 20 November 1943.

(For Ambassador Harriman)

The Joint Chiefs of Staff have been directed by the President to inform you2 that he desires your presence at Cairo about 22 November (to Chief United States Military Mission to USSR from Joint Chiefs of Staff) accompanied by General Deane, Mister Bohlen, General Vandenberg, and Commodore [Rear Admiral] Olsen.

  1. Sent to the War Department, apparently via Navy channels, as telegram 36, for forwarding to the United States Military Attaché, Moscow.↩
  2. See ante, p. 87.↩